Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Illinois
Posts: 1190

Latenight,

Great story!!!

By the way, I need a good walker gyp, you coming this way soon?

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Registered: Apr 2005
Location: Where I lay my tired body at
Posts: 487

Ive been goin with dad since i was 3 wich means i got about 15 years of hunting under my belt the last 3 hard hunting 5 nights a week but lately dad has slowed down he hit that big 40 a year back and he's got arthritis real bad in his knees and his back i guess all that welding and construction does it too you somedays he can hardly get up out of the bed but he gets up and goes to work picks up my little brother coaches his football and baseball team and still finds time to cut some hounds loose with me but the man i hunt with the most is a man by the name of pete mcelmurray hes been huntin since he was in his 20's and hes 70 now so hes been at it awhile but we still cut em 5 nights a week and i couldnt ask for a better hunting buddy dont know what ill do when hes gone he has taught me alot about being in the woods and about dogs he helped me find alot of my dogs a better fella ive never known he finds time to medicate my dogs his dogs a fella down the road who is 72 cant read or write but sure as hell can outhunt me lol he has also taught me alot about the woods, and he then he does 2 or 3 other peoples dogs in the community he got a degree from clemson and he is one of the smartest people to sit down and have a converstion about dogs with but when me and him go for a hunt its all buisness when the tailgate drops the bull stops with us but any other time you can see us riding around pick up some feed for the cows feedin cows travelin to pick up dogs and just bein lazy lol but sorry for such a long post but i thought i would share some about one of my best friends pete

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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: mid-michigan
Posts: 4437

My dad got me started 40+ years ago.

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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: (Richmond IN)
Posts: 967

Both sides of my family have always own some type of treedog.They came from Kentucky and they used the dogs to put meat on the table....The first reg dog they owned was redbones.My Grandfather Brack McCreary bought them for the boys to hunt.Didnt work out..The first day when my uncle bill went to feed them.They growled and tryed to bite him..The big cur dog they had jumped in between my uncle and the dogs...The cur killed both dogs...Grampa was not too happy HE was a Minister...He said it was ment to be......After that they got Black-n-Tans had good luck with them......My moms dad Abe Holcomb.As far as I know he always had Black dogs.All the pictures of his dogs are black-n-tans.When I was a little kid I can remember his dogs being so much bigger than the Black dogs you see today.I think the smallest dog he had was about 80-90 pounds....The first time I went hunting I was 5 years old...I can remember it like it was yesterday......This fall it will make 42 years Ive hunted.....Ive never missed a opening night...My hunting buddy Alan Wetzel And I have hunted together.. It will be 25 strait opening nights together this fall......Every opening night all our buddys get together at the localTruck stop on I-70 and state road one..We have a real good time. We have about 20-30 guys meet every year........................................

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Nite Ch Southern Stylish Tide (7 gen all grand)
Nite Ch Deep Creek Stoney
Nite Ch Nite Time Cheat
Nite Ch Goose Creek Little Tina (1 w GN)
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(English) Nite Ch Hard Time Spike (Sire Max)
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Ch Wild Rivers Whole Lotta Rosie
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: in the middle of a frozen hell
Posts: 402

These 2 guys got me started in coon Hunting when I was 19 years old and Mack still hunts til this day and Bud Smith doesn't hunt any more and I am very greatful they did because its been alot of fun for me and I have met alot of good coonhunters and houndsmen thru out the years and I'm 39 now. Thanks Mack and Bud for bringing me into such a great sport and one of our forefathers past times. John

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Oakdale, Pennsylvania
Posts: 3753

in 1974.. Cliff Brown and his son Tom from outside of Bridgeville,Pa. got me started. They had Hussler bred Blueticks that were great tree dogs. Been a dyed in the wool bluetick man ever since.

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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Dixie
Posts: 1490

since 1978, my neighbor, an older feller got me started. There has only been a couple years since I was 14 that I didnt have anything to hunt. Been through alot of sorry ones, a few good ones, but never had a great one. I aint given up though ,
I'm due.lol

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Comer, Georgia
Posts: 4724

so 41 years............Mr. Russel Campbell, Boiling Springs, PA, first took me.............he had Redbones.........good ones............

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